Green Technology Education Centre - Climate Distress Services

Education · Sustainability · Community

Supports:

Regenerative Development & Healthy Community in the Rapidly Changing 21st Century World 

VISION: The Green Technology Education Centre is at the forefront of solutions to the social and environmental challenges of our time.

MISSION: GTEC informs, supports and activates communities in responding to the climate crisis.

Our Values:

  • We are engaged in promoting environmental sustainability and regeneration through community development and education.
  • We regard working in partnership with the indigenous community as an integral part of responding to climate change.
  • We believe that the climate change requires new social, economic, and business practices.
  • We recognize that social and emotional resilience is a critical part of responding to climate change.
  • We value diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
  • We aspire to act in thoughtful, effective, and proactive ways.
  • We value consensus decision making and collaboration.

Current Programs

Worldwide young people are increasingly distressed about climate change and the uncertain future they face. Download a copy of the report on the study here: MHCCA Repairing the Social Contract.pdf

Canada’s first Climate Response Centre is projected to be located on Vancouver’s Granville Island because of its iconic nature, the Island’s significance to Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and its high level of public access. The Response Centre will be a source of relevant and accessible educational and community development programming, a template for communities throughout BC and a centre of evolving community-based expertise about responding to climate change. This initial centre is designed to serve as the hub of the GTEC Community-based, Collaborative Model mentioned below.

The GTEC Community-based, Collaborative Model envisions educating, activating and supporting community-based organizations in two interconnected ways based on a hub and spoke model.
See the Community Based Collaborative model for more information.

GTEC Reader

The Reader is GTEC’s online, free access arts and culture publication focused on the climate crisis. Now in its 5th year the Reader, the GTEC Reader is published on a quarterly basis. Subscribers receive each issue in their email inbox.

See the current GTEC Reader –Volume 5, Issue 1

See GTEC Reader Past Issues Here

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GTEC Communication & Media

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Are You Listening

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Heat Pumps for All

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Blowin’ in the Hot Wind: A Lament for Jasper

by Arden Henley How many roads must we walk down Before the smoke clears? How many days must pass by …
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FireSmoke Canada

More and more, people want to have more information about wildland fire weather and smoke, including forecasting for air quality …
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Youth Climate Fest by CityHive Vancouver

Celebrate CityHive’s annual community gathering, this year themed as a Youth Climate Fest! This event promises an engaging, vibrant evening …
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How Science Fiction Can Inspire Environmentalism and Climate Action

Harnessing the power of story may help us survive and thrive on a climate-altered planet. by Katherine Dolan, originally published …